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    2025 Boston Mayoral Race

    Is Michelle Wu as current mayor .. and as candidate .. better than what Josh Kraft offers on paper? Yes, open-ended question but if you know me (you should, I MATTER) you would know I hate incumbents and status quo and I also hate arrogant people (John Kraft walking in like he owns the place)...
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    Who Wants To Be... MAYOR!

    So what did I do wrong?
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    Where am I? The photo contest

    Redditor (ugh) posted this on Reddit. It's cover art for an Alarm album from the 80s. First two images are Central Artery but this one .. I admit, I'm stumped (never happens). Wasn't there a "gear" like this in South Boston across from the Gillette building where the welding company is...
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    🔹 What's Happening With Project X?

    Seaport Square & Fan Pier Someone on reddit (argh!) asked about this: The last updates for the four parcels are in the way back (2 years ..+). Are they still full of cars? Block D: I thought they closed this to parking and were actively digging a hole for an 18-storey office building? Block...
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    Block G | 120 Seaport blvd | Seaport sq

    Wait, did this get resolved? The 587 car garage would be .. surface (a parking garage)? You can't fit 587 cars under the surface, can you? Edit: I see now that it was for approval of a three-level underground garage and that the building would still go up on top of it, with street-level retail...
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    2025 Boston Mayoral Race

    O'Brien entering the race certainly raised my eyebrows. I had heard that Kraft was "the real deal" but he sure wasn't acting very "literate" in Boston politics. O'Brien has walked the walk, in my opinion (I love using idioms, I guess) so I'm interested in how he proceeds. Is there any proof...
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    Greenway Residential Building | 55 India Street | Downtown

    O.M.G. Ten short years after its initial announcement, it's happening?
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    One Lincoln (State Street Building)

    It's the classic game of "Duck, Duck, Goose" .. which we haven't seen since .. before the Millennium, at least in Boston. Ouch.
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    Ride & Car Sharing: Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, Zipcar, Relay Rides

    Can someone explain the reasoning behind charging a different fee for Uber to begin with? There's logic in it but I can't figure it out. I see in the article that cab fees are also increasing, from $2.25 today to $5.50 one-way by 2027, but cabs don't have to pay for a drop-off, whereas TNCs pay...
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    975 Boylston | Mass DOT Parcel 13 | Boylston & Mass Ave | Back Bay

    Yeah, that's a bad Wikipedia page. Let's see what I can do .. Others don't like it either. From the "Talk" section, complaining about an insider writing the page: Donald Albury's attempts to present false, misleading, or innacurrate information without sources; likely as a PR representative of...
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    Downtown Crossing/Financial District | Discussion

    Excuse me if this has been posted elsewhere. Marlboro Building at 399 Washington Street in Downtown Crossing sold for $13,000,000 on March 5, 2025. It's a 76,000 square foot five story building. Previously sold for $63.25 million in 2017. This is where Barnes & Noble used to be until circa...
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    Ode to Brutalism

    How 'bout that Brutalist movie?
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    Lyra (née The Huntington) | 252/258/264 Huntington Avenue | Fenway

    Great to be back! And Henry, how could you have known?! I'm relieved to log in today. I kept remembering I posted something awhile back and was sure it was much, much worse than it was. Very happy to see Lyra going up. Never thought it was going to happen after the Great Pandemic. (Could...
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    Lyra (née The Huntington) | 252/258/264 Huntington Avenue | Fenway

    First thread I've read in 7 years .. and people still can't resize photos. Good luck, guys!
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    General Boston Discussion

    Hayden Building at 681-683 Washington Street in the Combat Zone Chinatown sold for $3.3 million today. I'm confused as to the ownership trail on this. Historic Boston was the group that renovated it into four two-bedroom apartments upstairs and street-level retail after collecting $5.8 million...
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    🔷 Open Thread

    I miss you guys!
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    You all know more than I do but wanted to mention it here in case you hadn't heard so you can do more research. Provincetown voters chose to take away control of the Old Colony railway from the select board to the Open Land Trust, effectively canceling any hopes of expanding the Cape Cod Rail...
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    WBZ-TV/CBS Studio Development Project | 1170-2000 Soldiers Field Road | Allston

    83 Leo Property Owner LLC closed on its purchase of the studio/office building at 83 Leo M. Birmingham Parkway in Boston for $11,120,000 today. Published reports say the new owner will spend another $7 million when zoning approvals are granted or Audacy vacates the property. "Audacy will enter...
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    The Parker Boston (nee LaGrange Tower) | 47-55 LaGrange St. | Downtown

    Something seems off on this building yet I can't figure out if it's a legit feeling or that maybe I'm just looking to start gossip. This was originally going to be apartments but became condos. When proposed, there was concern by Ray Flynn's son that it was going to be "executive suites", which...

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